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Press Office: Lobby Briefing ("Press briefing for Moscow visit - March 25, 1987") [mutual respect not sympathy; Soviets "sparing no effort" to welcome MT; "two spectacular days - i.e. days which are likely to be very photogenic"] [released Oct 2017]

Document type: Declassified documents
Venue: Moscow
Source: Ingham MSS (Churchill Archive Centre): INGH 2/1/20 f140
Editorial comments:

This was a special briefing somewhat outside the usual format. Supporting documents follow.

Importance ranking: Major
Word count: 11
Themes: Foreign policy (USA), Foreign policy (USSR & successor states), Media